THE D.C. SPIDER WEB: Chapter Two

The D.C. Spider Web is an investigation into the people at the highest levels of power and influence in Washington D.C.

What began as a look into socialites surrounding James Alefantis evolved into an investigation of the ever-expanding web of connections between all sections of D.C. high society – art, politics, business, philanthropy, Hollywood, and beyond.

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First, we’ll tell you what we’re going to show you.

Then we’ll show you.

Then we’ll tell you what we just showed you.

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In Chapter One we looked at The Folger family and their connections to a child trafficking charity, people at the highest level of influence from politics to business to Hollywood, access to hundreds of millions of dollars, and the Bohemian Grove.

In Chapter Two, we will look at the Maccoby family. We will see how Izette Folger’s (born Maccoby) sister speaks of a CIA upbringing, and has Hollywood ties; how she and her husband, an Army Major in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, were leading voices on energy in the White House; how her brother was involved in James Alefantis’s lawsuit with David Brock; and how their powerful father has tight connections to a leader of the Frankfurt School, and is strongly-connected to the children’s charity from which 33 children were almost kidnapped in the Laura Silsby case.

In 2005, after leading a three-week delegation with the IFCE, and with a US-China agreement in place, Nora spoke directly with then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about clean energy projects. Following this, Rumsfeld threw support behind the project with two Defense Science Board Reviews, Energy Security offices in each branch of military, and funding, through the Office of Force Transformation, for The Energy Conversation.

The Energy Conversation:

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From 2007 – 2010, Nora served as Senior Communications Specialist for The Energy Conversation, a partnership of 29 government agencies and departments, working together to achieve smart energy policy.

She wrote ‘The Energy Conversation: The First 3 Years’, which is available to download as PDF here. It is a compilation of 31 Conversations from various writers about energy. These conversations include ‘Energy Policy in Light of a New President and Congress’, ‘The Economic Impact of Climate Change,’ and ‘Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century’.

In it, she says that the book would not be possible without the DOD Office of Force Transformation, the DOD Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Navy Office of Naval Research.

However, it seems that the Office of Force Transformation,which was said to be funding the Energy Conversation, was disestablished in 2006 (according to Wikipedia, although all source links are dead.) This was the year before Nora Maccoby-Hathaway spent four years as Energy Conversation’s Senior Communications Specialist.

It is unclear who was funding it after 2006. This is made all the more confusing by the fact that there does not seem to be an official website for The Energy Conversation, as www.energyconversation.org is not functional.

This means that our knowledge of which 29 government agencies are involved, to what extent, and to what ends, are unknown.

She is also noted as being on the board of The Energy Consensus, of which no website can be found. One is mentioned in the article below – http://energy.telascience.org/energyconsensus – however that link is also dead.

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In ‘Breaking Through Editorial‘, Scott Chubb speaks further about the Energy Conversation and, among other things, the “Evolving Alliance Between ‘Tree Huggers’ and the DOD.”

In the article, Chubb writes that “Nora Maccoby played a prominent role in initiating interest in the DOD in dealing with problems related to the strategic importance of energy and the need to develop alternative energy technologies and strategies for using energy by raising these issues in conversations with Donald Rumsfeld.”

Chubb mentions that Saudi Ambassador Turki Al-Faisal was present at the “Green Salon” Energy Talk he attended with Maccoby-Hathaway and Major Hathaway.

“The “tree huggers” and the DOD not only are beginning to talk to each other, but they are beginning to work together to create a political climate where the problems associated with global warming and our over-reliance on oil and other sources of greenhouse gases will be addressed using more efficient, alternative energy technologies and alternative energy fuels.”

As it mentions on its website’s homepage, The Cosmos Club has had among its members three Presidents, two Vice Presidents, a dozen Supreme Court justices, 36 Nobel Prize winners, 61 Pulitzer Prize winners and 55 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Here are Major Hathaway and his wife, Nora Maccoby-Hathaway, at the ‘Journey to Mecca’ screening, mentioned above.

They feature in the 2014 Washington Life Social List, among many other people of note. (P.50)

Major Hathaway is also in the field of energies.

Chubb claims that “Capt. Hathaway has been directly involved with the people who are responsible for bringing the issue (of the strategic importance of energy and the need to develop alternative energy sources and devices) to the attention of the Secretary of Defense and for organizing the “Energy Conversation.”

He has assisted with a non-profit focused on free energy technology and sustainable development, called Panacea-BOCAF.

It is named after Panacea, the goddess of universal remedy, and BOCAF stands for Building Our Children A Future.

On their site there is an article (that seems promotional) on Major Hathaway.

The same article mentions that Nora Maccoby-Hathaway hosted the New Energy Congress. In trying to find information on New Energy Congress, we did locate a PESWiki(Pure Energy Systems) website for it, but no links were helpful (both http://top5energy.com/ and http://newenergycongress.org were dead) and there was no mention of Maccoby. Another dead end.

Friend of the Orphans has since changed its name to Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), which is Spanish for Our Little Brothers and Sisters. (It also goes by Nos Petits Freres et Soeurs (NPFS), which is the French translation.)

NPH is a network of orphanages in Latin America and the Carribean.

It currently houses of 3,700 children in nine countries:

Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru, with Haiti and the Dominican Republic of particular significance. More on Friends of the Orphans below.

There are some claims that Butzel Long, and the surrounds of its building have some child-sex insinuations. The dissolution of sli.mg make this more difficult to investigate.

SANDYLEE MACCOBY

Sandylee Maccoby is the mother of Izette, Nora and Max Maccoby.

She is listed as part of the Maccoby Group. She is a writer and artist.

At 31:30 minutes, Michael Maccoby defends Comet Ping Pong, saying it is “a great benefit to the community.” He stresses having been in the area since 1970 and says he “would personally seek to remove the individuals attempting to stop (James Alefantis).”

Michael Maccoby is one of the central contributors and facilitators of an international non-profit – the same children’s organization that sees his son Max serve on the board – NPH/ Friends of the Orphans.

And with new investigations suggesting that there may have been CIA operatives in Silsby’s orphanage staff, it brings a new focus on the possibility of CIA activity within or involving the Maccoby family.

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In summary, Chapter Two showed us how Izette Folger’s family has links through energy policy the White House, is personal friends with an ex-CIA Chief, has an in-law who is an Army Major in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, defended both James Alefantis and David Brock in court, has membership to the Cosmos Club, was personal friends with Erich Fromm, and is involved in the leadership of the same International Children’s Charity from whose Haiti Orphanage Laura Silsby stole 33 children.

Children, military, money, charity, Hollywood, the Cosmos Club, James Alefantis, David Brock and the Laura Silsby Case. All connected to the Maccoby family.

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In Chapter Three, we will look at another high-society family, the Cafritz Family.

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* Potential link to Todd Hathaway:

While there is no way to determine whether this is the same Todd Hathway, we were a little unnerved by the website www.ToddHathaway.com.

The home page (and only page) shows his e-mail address.

And there is a link to download his resume. However, once you download the file, it needs a password to be opened.